Wisdom Quotes

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately

Makes, Necessary, Neglect

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki

Life, Love, Beauty

Every silver lining has a cloud.
Mary Kay Ash

Cloud, Silver, Lining

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little

Wise, Hard, May

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day

Off, Feet, Sweep

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner

Between, Difference, Turn

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

Promise, Rarely, Constantly

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Success, May

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Knowledge, Taken

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus

Fear, Worst, Prosperity

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman

Time, Human, Meet

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

Difficult, Measure

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

Wise, Himself, Capable

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson

Future, Arrived, Evenly

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

Knowing, Next, Virtue

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

Mankind, Governed

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

Nothing, Military, Innocent

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin

Life, Real, Fabric

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

Nature, Another

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

Wise, Sense, Common

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier

Yourself, Through, Virtues

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

Love, Enjoy, Learn

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
William Temple

Best, Enemy, Friend

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